Festivus presents FROLIC- The 10th Anniversary Edition
FROLIC, returns to Central Park’s Great Hill on Saturday July 9th, 2011 to celebrate it’s 10th Anniversary. This long-running annual art and music event, is a volunteer run community-based event whose purpose is to bring people of all ages together to experience electronic music in a positive, open air setting.
FROLIC is a LEAVE NO TRACE event, so if you bring it into the park, bring it out of the park. Respect the Environment. FROLIC is a pet and family friendly event.
As always this is a FREE event volunteer run event. We would like to thank everyone for their support throughout the years, and we invite supporters, both old and new to please lend us your support for this year's FROLIC. Please go to
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1848838737/help-us-help-nycs-children to make a donation to this year’s event. All donations through Kickstarter are used to off-set the costs involved with doing this event. Proceeds from this event will go to help support NYC children's music education programs.
If you’d like to volunteer please send an email with the subject line Volunteer to
mike@frolic-nyc.com and include your contact information.
Keep in mind that NYC law does not allow for open alcoholic beverages in public spaces, so plan accordingly. Bring your blanket, your food, your dancing shoes, and smiling faces.
Please join us Saturday July 9, 2011 from 3pm-8pm on the Great Hill in Central Park for FROLIC
Featuring:
Stacey Pullen (Blackflag Recordings, Detroit)
Le Loup (Wolf + Lamb)
Spinoza (The Bunker)
Stadenco (Flawless, AlumiNAUGHTY)
Special Opening Performance by the Da’ Riddim iNya drum ensemble
Stacey Pullen (Blackflag Recordings, Detroit)
Stacey Pullen is an innovator from the second wave of Detroit techno; he grew up under the mentorship of Detroit's legendary three: Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. Still continuing to produce his characteristic atmosphere laden electronic sound, Stacey Pullen compounds his reputation as a producer with that of being one of the world's most in demand DJs. Even with all his success, Stacey has stayed true to his one goal: to become and to always be an Innovator.
In the early days, through legendary Detroit club “The Music Institute”, Stacey quickly got to know the leading lights of Detroit's underground: Alton Miller, Chez Damier, Derrick May, and Jay Denham who influenced and taught him strongly. A couple of years later, in 1992, Derrick suggested that a good way to develop his skills would be for Stacey to do some remix work with Kevin Saunderson. Stacey began to work on remixes including one for Karen White ‐'The Way I Feel About You', for Prodigy and KMS – just to name a few. Thus Stacey truly became part of the Transmat / Metroplex / KMS team.
After touring Europe with Derrick May all of 1993, Stacey moved back to Detroit, ready to establish himself and start his own label. Throughout 1994 he commuted between Europe and the USA, finishing the Silent Phase album on R & S. Releases like 'The Sphinx' as Bango and the first Silent Phase album on Transmat followed as well as a couple of releases on Plink Plonk by the alias 'Kosmik Messenger' and 'Eye to Eye and 'Flash' ‐ both released in 1995.
In 1998 Stacey was invited to produce his very first major label release on Virgin Records, and at the same time opened the label he had wanted to start for about three years, 'BlackFlag'. Its debut release, Black Odyssey‘s „Sweat“, was considered a future classic. The pseudonym under which Stacey recorded also dropped the labels second release “Stand“. Both found great success and went on to be licensed to a number of compilation albums, including Stacey‘s „Fabric 14“ mix compilation.
2011 sees Stacey still on the road, bringing his signature eclecticism to some lucky parts of the planet. As a result, every set becomes more personalized, more unique, a window into Stacey's musical passions. With Black Flag resurrected, 2010’s hit "Alive" is now followed up by "Get Up" in April 2011. This year Stacey’s two sets in Detroit for the official Movement after parties: the closing set at Elysium and his set at the “I’m on a Boat” party with Loco Dice were considered by many to be far and away one of the best sets during Movement.
Stacey Pullen @ Fuse
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=91NWBLWM
Le Loup (Wolf + Lamb)
Le Loup, young Parisian, born Leonard Perret, spent his formative years studying sound engineering in University & exploring the many facets of house. Indeed Le Loup has developed an interest in music from an early age, bought his first turntables at age 16 and started then spending hours crate digging in search of new and rare gems.
Influenced by artists such as Sun Ra, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone but also Moodyman and Daniel Bell, Le Loups productions sound similar to his DJ mixes; a true melting pot of jazz and house classics, as well as a pronounced inclination for Detroit and NYC vibes cross-pollinated with funk and disco vibe.
This is no surprise though, the young boy released his first ever EP aged 21 on one of the actual hottest labels : Wolf + Lamb. Even more, See Line quickly became the label's all-time best-selling track.. Pretty nice debut though and a transatlantic recognition pricing!
Since then he’s been significantly developing his unique, gritty and often arhythmical sound, releasing on Airdrop, Get the curse, Eklo, Supplement Facts or Esperanza; starting a new collaboration with Soul Clap named Le Clap; launching a new label hold youth alongside his mate Seuil and preparing EPs for key labels like seinan or remixes for dOP ..
The young blood is being recognized as a serious, sophisticated, forward-thinking DJ. His reputation of house aesthete, a connoisseur hungry for lost sounds has gathered support from big players in the field such as Seth Troxler, Lee Curtiss and Jay Haze. He has already shared the bill with acknowledged djs/producers such as Damian Lazarus, Cesar Merveille, Ryan Crosson, Jamie Jones, Art Department, Kyle Hall, Mike Dunn or The Martinez Brothers in notorious underground parties such as Dimuschi, or Rex Club in Paris, Club Der Visionaer in Berlin, Louche in Leeds, Detroits DEMF Festival or the legendary W+L parties in Brooklyn.. and has already granted a residency @ Half baked 2010s hyper party in London.. One piece of advice, WaTChOut for this over talented Dj/producer !
Jaunt Episode 19 with Le Loup
http://jaunt.podomatic.com/entry/2010-12-01T17_34_22-08_00
Spinoza (The Bunker)
Bryan Kasenic (aka Spinoza) is known in the electronic music world for throwing many successful parties, playing adventurous DJ sets, launching an influential newsletter, and starting Beyond Booking, his own booking agency.
Although Spinoza has been playing tons of techno and house lately, he loves all music, and has a past that cannot be pinned down to just one genre. He started DJing in 1996, playing psychedelic soundscapes in chillout rooms and on college radio shows (Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, and New York University). Slowly but surely, he became more obsessed with all forms of dance music, and at this point plays dance music in New York City at least twice a month, mainly at his own Bunker parties.
Spinoza is also known for his many other roles in the electronic music scene. As a free service to the community, he began publishing Beyond NYC Events, a weekly email newsletter, in 1997. The newsletter became an influential way to promote interesting under-the-radar electronic music events to a large fan base in New York. In 2001, Kasenic oversaw the booking of all of the promoters at Openair, a DJ lounge in the East Village that quickly gained recognition for its forward-thinking music programming. At Openair, one of the promoters he worked with was Magda, who brought in techno luminaries like Zip, Daniel Bell, and John Tejada to play at her first residency in New York City. From 2000 to 2005, Spinoza helped DJ Olive and Jameson run The Agriculture, a record label dedicated to bringing homegrown laptop dub to the masses.
Spinoza has thrown a ton of parties and weeklies in New York City, including a 5-year stint at Halcyon with the Undercity weekly. He has put most of his energy into The Bunker since January 2003, eventually turning it into the premier techno weekly in North America, which morphed into a bigger monthly party in 2009. In 2005, he started doing all the booking for the Wolf + Lamb Marcy Hotel in Williamsburg, helping to almost instantly transform it into the hottest after-hours spot New York City had seen in many years. Spinoza went on to curate and help throw many larger warehouse and loft parties with Wolf + Lamb. In 2008, he founded the House-n-Home loft party series with Anthony Parasole, which hosted many legendary loft parties over the course of a year.
Through the Beyond Booking Agency, Kasenic has helped build the electronic music scene nationally by booking his friends and allies in other North American cities. As he has become busier with other projects, he reduced the Beyond roster to just The Bunker residents (Derek Plaslaiko, Eric Cloutier, and himself), but continues to assist guest artists coming through The Bunker to connect with the right people in other cities.
Bryan's latest endeavor was producing three events for the inaugural Unsound Festival New York in February 2010. Unsound, Poland's most adventurous music festival, brought a bold and uniquely modern program of music to Kraków for seven years before producing a New York edition. The three Bunker Unsound events were highly successful, presenting a cross section of some of the most interesting (and sadly most under represented) electronic music artists from Eastern Europe and the US.
While Spinoza has played lots of big clubs like Tresor, Twilo, Tunnel, and Vinyl/Arc, he honestly prefers small intimate rooms. He has DJed at big parties in New York for PS1 Warm Up, Resolute, Rhythmism, Madagascar Institute, Chengwin, Soundlab, Multipolyomni (at the Kitchen), Rubulad, Complacent, theDanger, the Lunatarium, and NYC Burningman Decompression. He's also appeared in Berlin (Watergate), Krakow & Warsaw (Unsound Festival), Seattle (Decibel Festival), Boulder (Communikey Festival), Chicago (Sonotheque), Detroit (Oslo), Philadelphia (Rizumu), Boston, Pittsburgh, and Montreal.
Unsound Podcast with Spinoza
http://altivex.net/~sneak/dvcdn/bunker/2009/Spinoza_Unsound_Podcast.mp3
Stadenco (Flawless, AlumiNAUGHTY)
Stadenco started his DJ career informally at the age of 2, carrying his little red record player around to play music for anyone who would listen. From there, he explored the worlds of piano, guitar and bass, taking lessons and generally being a nuisance to his instructors. He continued his music education at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, with a focus on music production and engineering. Stadenco got bitten by the house bug when he was dragged to the now-defunct club Vinyl in NYC in early 2001. Already DJing non-edm music, he gradually transitioned to playing the quirky, dirty house and techno that he is known for today. Stadenco has shared the decks with the likes of Steve Bug, Hot Natured, Craig Richards, Loco Dice, Gui Boratto, Ida Engberg, Matthias Tanzmann, Tom Middleton, Stacey Pullen, Damian Lazarus, John Tejada, and Kevin Saunderson. He plays consistently at many of New York’s top parties and venues, and will be seen soon in a town near you.
Stadenco Promo Mix:
http://soundcloud.com/stadenco/stadenco-jan-2011-promo-mix
Festivus Presents: FROLIC- The Tenth Anniversary Edition
On the Great Hill in Central Park
Enter at 106th Street and Central Park West
Saturday July 9th from 3 pm to 8 pm
Free
RAIN OR SHINE
www.frolic-nyc.com
